Construction of a restriction-less, marker-less mutant useful for functional genomic and metabolic engineering of the biofuel producer Clostridium acetobutylicum

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Croux, Christian ^a   Nguyen, Ngoc Phuong Thao ^a   Lee, Jieun ^b   Raynaud, Céline ^c   Saint Prix, Florence ^a   Gonzalez Pajuelo, Maria ^a   Meynial Salles, Isabelle ^a   Soucaille, Philippe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c Metabolic Explorer   (France)

Author keywords

5 FU; Cac824I; Clostridium acetobutylicum; FLP; FRT; Gene deletion; Gene replacement; upp; upp gene

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ALKYLATION; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFUELS; CHROMOSOMES; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA SEQUENCES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENE ENCODING; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; YEAST;

5-FU; CAC824I; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; GENE DELETION; GENE REPLACEMENT;

GENES;

BACTERIUM; BIOENGINEERING; BIOFUEL; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOMICS; METABOLISM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; POSIBACTERIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84956996943     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-016-0432-2     Document Type: Article

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